Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

KJV

ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· πλανᾶσθε, μὴ εἰδότες τὰς γραφὰς μηδὲ τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ θεοῦ.

Greek NT

Respondens autem Jesus, ait illis : Erratis nescientes Scripturas, neque virtutem Dei.

Vulgate

But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

ASV

And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γραφή
graphe
noun · 50×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δύναμις
dunamis
noun · 119×
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μηδέ
mede
conjunction · 54×
πλανάω
planao
verb · 39×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

11 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§575Many of Jesus' deeds and words constituted a "sign of contradiction",321 but more so for the religious authorities in Jerusalem, whom the Gospel according to John often calls simply "the Jews",322 than for the ordinary People of God.323 To be sure, Christ's relations with the Pharisees were not exclusively polemical. Some Pharisees warn him of the danger he was courting;324 Jes…
The author returns to his former argument, and shows that there was but one God announced by the law and prophets, whom Christ confesses as His Father, and who, through His word, one living God with Him, made Himself known to men in both covenants. 1. God, therefore, is one and the same, who rolls up the heaven as a book, and renews the face of the earth; who made the things of…
Whosoever confesses that one God is the author of both Testaments, and diligently reads the Scriptures in company with the presbyters of the Church, is a true spiritual disciple; and he will rightly understand and interpret all that the prophets have declared respecting Christ and the liberty of the New Testament. 1. A spiritual disciple of this sort truly receiving the Spirit …
2. He stopped not, however, at the rebuke, although it was enough merely to have convicted them of their purpose, and to have put them to shame for their wickedness; but He stops not at this, but in another way closes their mouths; for, Show me, says He, the tribute money. And when they had shown it, as He ever does, by their tongue He brings out the decision, and causes them t…
2. Having now sufficiently condemned the glutton, he uses also the hope of things to come to divert us from this wickedness: saying, 1 Corinthians 6:14 And God both raised up the Lord, and will raise up us also through His power. Do you perceive again his Apostolical wisdom? For he is always establishing the credibility of the Resurrection from Christ, and especially now. For i…
1. The blessed Paul wishes to show in the next place that this covenant is far better than the old. This then he does by first laying down remote considerations. For inasmuch as there was nothing bodily or that made a show, no temple for instance, nor Holy of Holies, nor Priest with so great apparel, no legal observances, but all things higher and more perfect, and there was no…
Chapter 17.—Whether the Bodies of Women Shall Retain Their Own Sex in the Resurrection. From the words, “Till we all come to a perfect man, to the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ,”16341634 Eph. iv. 13. and from the words, “Conformed to the image of the Son of God,”16351635 Rom. viii. 29. some conclude that women shall not rise women, but that all shall be men, beca…
Marriage in the Integral Vision of Man The Gospels according to Matthew and Mark report the answer Christ gave to the Pharisees when they questioned him about the indissolubility of marriage. They referred to the law of Moses, which in certain cases admitted the practice of the so-called certificate of divorce. Reminding them of the first chapters of Genesis, Christ answered: …
52. Vainly then, here again, O Arians, have you made this conjecture, and vainly alleged the words of Scripture; for God's Word is unalterable, and is ever in one state, not as it may happen , but as the Father is; since how is He like the Father, unless He be thus? Or how is all that is the Father's the Son's also, if He has not the unalterableness and unchangeableness of the …
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Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:43 — It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
  • 2Pet 3:16 — As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, u
  • 2Tim 3:15 — And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Acts 26:8 — Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
  • Dan 12:2 — And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Dan 12:2 — And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Gal 4:21 — Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
  • Gen 18:14 — Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
  • Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
  • Isa 8:20 — To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
  • Isa 25:8 — He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
  • Isa 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
  • Jas 1:16 — Do not err, my beloved brethren.
  • Jer 32:17 — Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
  • Job 14:14 — If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
  • Job 19:25 — For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
  • John 3:10 — Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
  • John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
  • John 20:9 — For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
  • John 20:9 — For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
  • Luke 1:37 — For with God nothing shall be impossible.
  • Luke 20:35 — But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
  • Luke 24:44 — And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the
  • Mark 12:24 — And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
  • Matt 12:7 — But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
  • Phil 3:21 — Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
  • Phil 3:21 — Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
  • Ps 16:9 — Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
  • Ps 17:15 — As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
  • Ps 49:14 — Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
  • Ps 73:25 — Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
  • Rom 15:4 — For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
  • Zech 13:9 — And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my